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Proxenia Accelerator focuses on helping hospitality founders build stronger companies. The Proxenia Foundation connects that work to the larger hospitality community — industry experience, education, research, expert guidance, and relationships across Central Florida.
That gives the Accelerator a broader home while creating opportunities for useful work that extends beyond any single founder or cohort.
Hospitality operators. Entrepreneurs. Universities. Technology talent. Industry organizations. One of the world's largest visitor economies.
What is harder is getting those resources into the same conversation. Founders may struggle to reach operators. Experienced professionals may not know where their knowledge could help. Good connections can disappear when a program or event ends.
The Foundation creates more ways for those relationships to form, become useful, and continue.
Three simple ideas guide how the Foundation turns regional knowledge and relationships into useful work.
Bring hospitality knowledge and experience into wider use.
Research, interviews, conversations, and industry participation help identify what is changing, what people are learning, and where that knowledge could be useful.
Turn relationships and ideas into programs people can use.
Accelerator programs, education, expert guidance, and industry participation create practical ways for founders and professionals to take part.
Keep useful relationships and programs moving forward.
Mentor relationships, recurring gatherings, showcases, community participation, and long-term support help useful connections continue beyond a single cohort or event.
Proxenia Accelerator is a program of The Proxenia Foundation focused on helping hospitality entrepreneurs move from idea to validation, traction, and investment readiness.
The Foundation gives that work a larger home by connecting founders with expertise, research, education, and the wider hospitality community.
Research, leadership, community initiatives, and ways to participate are available on the Foundation site.
Visit proxeniafoundation.org
